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July 24, 2009
Ceremony Location: New Hope, PA
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My Reviews (5)
Ceremony & Reception Venue
HollyHedge Estate
New Hope, Pennsylvania 18938
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Review Date: 09/15/2009
Services Used: Ceremony & Reception Venue

4.5
out of 5.0
Quality of Service: 5.0 out of 5.0(5.0/5.0)
Responsiveness:4.0 out of 5.0(4.0/5.0)
Professionalism:4.5 out of 5.0(4.5/5.0)
Value For Cost:4.0 out of 5.0(4.0/5.0)
Flexibility:5.0 out of 5.0(5.0/5.0)
We highly recommend Holly Hedge to future bride and grooms. The grounds are beautiful, your ceremony can be performed outside (with a no-cost indoor back-up plan should it rain so you won't spend months worrying about the weather), and Albie, the coordinator, is fantastic and honest and was a great resource for helping us make menu and logistical decisions. The food was fantastic as well. Not the typical wedding food you expect when trying to cater 100+ guests. We highly recommend their desserts as well (we did a tiny ice cream cake from an outside store and then did a dessert buffet). The location is close to Lambertville and downtown New Hope, so overnight guests have some very nice hotel options. Most of our guests regretted not making plans to spend the entire weekend in New Hope/Lambertville because it is just so beautiful. My only dislike for Holly Hedge is the decor of the reception hall. There is a rockwall mural that I was not fond of and planters spread throughout containing fake greenery. This all can be covered if you want to hire someone and spend some money (which we opted not to do).

Photography
Aga Images
New York, New York 10018
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Review Date: 09/15/2009
Services Used: Photography

4.9
out of 5.0
Quality of Service: 5.0 out of 5.0(5.0/5.0)
Responsiveness:4.5 out of 5.0(4.5/5.0)
Professionalism:5.0 out of 5.0(5.0/5.0)
Value For Cost:5.0 out of 5.0(5.0/5.0)
Flexibility:5.0 out of 5.0(5.0/5.0)
Aga and her team were fantastic. Very kind and friendly and unobtrusive at the event. If you are looking for photojournalism style photos, this is your team. We had our complete proofs library very quickly. No obligation to buy albums from Aga either. We love our photos.

Flowers & Decor
solstice
Glen Gardner, New Jersey 08826
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Review Date: 09/22/2009
Services Used: Flowers & Decor

4.8
out of 5.0
Quality of Service: 5.0 out of 5.0(5.0/5.0)
Responsiveness:5.0 out of 5.0(5.0/5.0)
Professionalism:5.0 out of 5.0(5.0/5.0)
Value For Cost:4.0 out of 5.0(4.0/5.0)
Flexibility:5.0 out of 5.0(5.0/5.0)
If you visit the Solstice website in the near future (9/09) you can find photos of the arrangements Jaime did for my wedding. They were stunning. I gave her a lot of freedom and she really out did herself. We were going for a romantic theme for my outdoor ceremony and she created stunning arrangements using pink and cream roses and hydrangea. She created beautiful potted willows adorned with flowers with only a sketch I made on a sheet of paper as a guide and she created exactly what I had envisioned. She is also to be commended for all of the unexpected extras - small vases with flowers in the windows, things like that. She really went above and beyond. She was also kind enough to make me a sample arrangement for my bridal shower (at no charge) to test out what we were considering for the centerpeices.

Band
The Smokin' Section
Metuchen, New Jersey 08840
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Review Date: 09/22/2009
Services Used: Band

4.8
out of 5.0
Quality of Service: 5.0 out of 5.0(5.0/5.0)
Responsiveness:5.0 out of 5.0(5.0/5.0)
Professionalism:5.0 out of 5.0(5.0/5.0)
Value For Cost:4.0 out of 5.0(4.0/5.0)
Flexibility:5.0 out of 5.0(5.0/5.0)
Fabulous band. We highly recommend them. We picked songs for our first dance and parent dance that were not on their play list and they quickly learned them (Ray LaMontagne and Sam Cooke). As mentioned by other reviewers in earlier posts, we had the opportunity to review a very long play list and the band stuck to our DO NOT PLAY songs and our MUST PLAY songs, and they used good judgment in playing to the crowd. We had planned to make a play list on our iPod for the band to play during their breaks, but we ran out of time and never did this. To our surprise, on one of the breaks, one of the band members continued to play on his own and did an amazing Sam Cooke medley (they knew we were Sam fans). I'm glad we did not give them songs to play on breaks, because what they did was so much better!

Invitations
Wedding Paper Divas
Mountain View, California 94043
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Review Date: 09/22/2009
Services Used: Invitations

4.1
out of 5.0
Quality of Service: 4.0 out of 5.0(4.0/5.0)
Responsiveness:5.0 out of 5.0(5.0/5.0)
Professionalism:5.0 out of 5.0(5.0/5.0)
Value For Cost:4.0 out of 5.0(4.0/5.0)
Flexibility:2.5 out of 5.0(2.5/5.0)
My invitations were beautiful (we went with Simple Stems in red) and unique and we received many compliments from our guests. My only complaint was that when I needed extra envelopes urgently shipped, they could not get them out the door as quickly as I needed. With a big operation like this, I guess it is not as easy as having someone walk into the warehouse and grab them and drop them in a Fed Ex box. But with that said, I would still recommend Wedding Paper Divas because of their great selection, the uniqueness and classiness of their invitations, and also because they have a great sample program.